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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 8:42 am
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Originally Posted by VC10 Boy
Personally I always prefer to alight from the aeroplane.

And before someone starts screaming about trains, my dictionary defines it thus "settle, come to earth from the air".

As in "Change here for the Piccadily Line. Alight for the Natural History Museum"

Whereas other might say, "Detrain deplatform replatform and retrain for the Piccadiliy Line. Detrain deplatform and destation for emnaturalhistoymuseuming."
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